Read the results in the terminal carefully. If the error is only that it was unable to write the last few blocks, that may be ok. We have padded the image with zeros at the end, so theoretically it shouldn't matter so much if some of the zeros at the end are missing.

Read the results in the terminal carefully. If the error is only that it was unable to write the last few blocks, that may be ok. We have padded the image with zeros at the end, so theoretically it shouldn't matter so much if some of the zeros at the end are missing.

−

If you have any further difficulties: try again, use e.g. of=/dev/rdisk'''3''' instead, and/or try including the option <tt>bs=1m</tt>. This changes the block size of each write. No matter what, using a high-quality (micro) SDHC card can save you a lot of trouble later! For instance, we use the Kingston micro SDHC cards that come with the Beagle Board xM.

For instance, when the procedure works for me, I see that almost all of the records are copied<br>

For instance, when the procedure works for me, I see that almost all of the records are copied<br>

If you have any further difficulties: try again, use e.g. of=/dev/rdisk'''3''' instead, and/or try including the option <tt>bs=1m</tt>. This changes the block size of each write. No matter what, using a high-quality (micro) SDHC card can save you a lot of trouble later! For instance, we use the Kingston micro SDHC cards that come with the Beagle Board xM.

Connect the blank (micro) SD card to your Mac by plugging it in directly to a camera SD card reader or use a USB micro SDHC reader/writer.

Run the df command again in the Terminal to determine that the SD card (in this case named Untitled) corresponds to the partition /dev/disk2s1 on the disk /dev/disk2 (or for you, it might show up as /dev/disk3s1 and /dev/disk3 or /dev/disk4s1 and /dev/disk4, etc.) Usually it shows up on the last line:

dd if=SatelliteCCRMA-xMRevC_Maverick.dd of=/dev/disk2
where you substitute the appropriate image and disk names. This will take a while.

<Note from Wendy, July 2012>
If you want to see how far along in the process you are, you can open another terminal window, and type

killall -INFO dd in Mac OS X, or

killall -USR1 dd in Linux.
Read the results in the terminal carefully. If the error is only that it was unable to write the last few blocks, that may be ok. We have padded the image with zeros at the end, so theoretically it shouldn't matter so much if some of the zeros at the end are missing.

For instance, when the procedure works for me, I see that almost all of the records are copieddd if=SatelliteCCRMA-xMRevC_Maverick.dd of=/dev/disk3
7457+0 records in
7456+1 records out
7818186752 bytes transferred in 6604.225241 secs (1183816 bytes/sec)

If you have any further difficulties: try again, use e.g. of=/dev/rdisk3 instead, and/or try including the option bs=1m. This changes the block size of each write. No matter what, using a high-quality (micro) SDHC card can save you a lot of trouble later! For instance, we use the Kingston micro SDHC cards that come with the Beagle Board xM.

3. Put Them All Together

Plug everything in, and you should be ready to go. Here it is with some speakers.